Sexuality
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# 45639
STUART, Douglas
Young Mungo (signed limited edition first edition)
London : Picador, 2022. First U.K. edition. Octavo, lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (very light handling wear), pp. [viii]; 390; (1), a fine copy. The limited edition of the first U.K. edition of the author’s second novel, with publisher’s blind stamped limitation statement, numbered 243 of 250 copies, signed by the author. ‘From Booker-prize winner …
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# 45332
RIISFELDT, Emil
Five studio portraits of comedian and female impersonator Gilbert Saroney (in and out of character). Sydney, 1880.
Five albumen print photographs, in uniform carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mounts); verso with the imprint of ‘Palace Photographic. E. Riisfeldt, Artist Photographer. Hordern’s Chambers, 490 George Street, Sydney’; on the verso of one is a fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Saroney’; the prints and mounts are all in excellent condition. Provenance: …
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# 45613
MABEL COLLECTIVE [FIGNER, Vera, ed.]
Mabel : Australian feminist newspaper. No. 1 December 1975.
Sydney, N.S.W. : Mabel Collective, 1975. Folio newspaper, 24 pp, illustrated; original central horizontal fold, front page foxed, otherwise very good. Eight issues of Mabel were published between Dec. 1975 and Sept. 1977. A history of the newspaper by Paula J. Byrne, Mabelled, appeared in Hecate, v.22, no.2, 1996, p.87-100.
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# 45556
W. J. NORMAN (publisher / retailer)
Carte de visite photograph of a French risqué print, published and sold in Melbourne around 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘W. J. Norman, Looking Glass & Picture Frame Manufacturer, 94 & 170 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. Looking Glasses Re-silvered, Frames Re-gilded. Great variety of Photographs’; some very light foxing to the print, more pronounced on the verso. We have previously …
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# 44934
FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
A womb for the Pope : cards distributed at Right to Life rally and anti-Right to Life demonstration, Treasury Gardens, 1982.
[Melbourne : Virginia Fraser, 1982]. Stencilled card, 90 x 110 mm; verso blank; in fine condition, archived by the artist in a plastic sleeve with a backing sheet bearing the artist’s typed description. ‘Virginia Fraser was an artist, writer, editor and curator who made an indelible mark on the Australian art world. Initially trained as …
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# 44936
FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
Pig and Dingo (did it) trifle : Commemorative trifle #1. Made for Women’s Weekly Bake-off party. Clifton Hill, 1982.
[Melbourne : Virginia Fraser, 1982]. Polaroid photograph, 110 x 90 mm; in fine condition, archived by the artist in a plastic sleeve with a backing sheet bearing the artist’s typed description. ‘Virginia Fraser was an artist, writer, editor and curator who made an indelible mark on the Australian art world. Initially trained as a newspaper …
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# 44935
FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
Be your own idol : cards distributed at “Come as your favourite heroine party”, Carlton, 1982.
[Melbourne : Virginia Fraser, 1982]. Three cards with embossed borders, 105 x 125 mm; rectos inscribed in biro by the artist ‘Be your own idol’; versos also inscribed ‘Complements [sic] of Small Disturbances’; in fine condition, archived by the artist in a plastic sleeve with a backing sheet bearing the artist’s typed description. ‘Virginia Fraser …
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# 44892
AUDEN, W. H. (1907 - 1973)
The platonic blow
New York : the Fuck You Press, 1965. First separate edition. Quarto, printed wrappers, pp. 12. Limited to 300 copies, 10 additional deluxe editons in three variations also printed. The platonic blow, sometimes known as The gobble poem, is an gay erotic poem which graphically describes an act of oral sex between two young men. Originally composed in 1948, …
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# 44828
REID, Ann Carll (editor)
One : the homosexual magazine
Los Angeles : One, Incorporated, 1957. Octavo, illustrated wrappers by Eve Elloree (aka Joan Corbin), date inscribed in pen, pp. 24, illustrated. Scarce. Rare early magazine from the homophile organisation One Inc., founded in 1952. In 1954 the United State Post Office declared the publication obscene, leading to a four year legal battle, which was …
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# 44816
Anon.
Australian Marriage Equality campaign placard
[Melbourne?] : 2017. Printed placard with an inverted pink triangle and the word YES, 420 x 295 mm, fine condition. Until 2017, marriage in Australia was defined as “the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life”. Same sex couples were treated as de facto …
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# 44829
DEAN, Douglas (pseudonym for Dean Goodman)
Douglas Dean’s San Francisco Gaylife ’73 – ’74
Bars – baths – restaurants – clubs – churches. Make out – a provocative short story by Douglas Dean. Plus photos of the hunkiest guys this side of heaven. San Francisco : Barbary Coast Productions, 1973. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrations (including male nudes), light foxing. Dean Goodman (Douglas Dean Goodman) was a San …
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# 44792
KRIMKO, Stuart et al.
Tom of Finland. Threesome
Los Angeles : David Kordansky Gallery, 2022. Quarto, simulated leather with pictorial only, pp. 168, illustrated with Tom of Finland’s homoerotic imagery. Printed in an edition of 1250 copies. ‘Tom of Finland: Threesome is a major new catalogue that documents three exhibitions held at David Kordansky Gallery between 2015 and 2021: Early Work 1944 – …
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# 44622
LISTER, Kate
Harlots, whores & hackabouts : a history of sex for sale
London : Thames and Hudson, 2021. Octavo illustrated papered boards, pp. 256, with 450 illustrations in colour. New copy. A provocative and compelling illustrated cultural history of the world’s oldest profession that recovers the stories of those who sold sex for a living. The history of selling sex is a hidden one, its practitioners a …
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# 44353
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen (deluxe edition with signed archival print)
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. New copy. The rare deluxe edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by the artist. Mounted inside the upper board is a mylar sleeve housing a limited edition archival inkjet print Golden Summer 1987 / 2016 …
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# 44154
JUDIN, Juerg et al, editor
Tom of Finland : an imaginary sketchbook
Edited by Juerg Judin and Pay Matthis Karstens. Milan : Skira, 2022. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 128, illustrated. The importance of drawing in the work of the Finnish artist, icon of gayness. Tom of Finland undoubtedly counts among the great and truly influential artists of the latter 20th century. Through his iconic images, he almost …
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# 43914
[Madame GUYOT, attributed]
Julie, ou J’ai sauvé ma rose / par Madame de C***.
“La mère en défendra la lecture à sa fille”. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée. Hambourg ; Paris : Chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1807 [but 1821]. Second edition. Two volumes, duodecimo (180 x 110 mm), uniform half linen over marbled papered boards, spines with morocco title-pieces lettered in gilt; pp. [4], 252 + [4], 287; wide …